MINEROL PASTURE SPRAYS

Agricultural soils today produce 150% more crop than 40 Years ago. The result is that the soils are more quickly exhausted of their nutrients. In particular, intensive cereal growing decreases the mineral status of the soil severely so that when such land is eventually used to produce animal feed the natural ‘soil nutrient bank’ is depleted. Even in soils used for mixed farming, the milk and meat produced removes minerals from that farm.

If these elements are not replaced by Minerol Pasture Sprays or Minerol Drench, then mineral deficiencies or imbalances will occur.

Q. What is unique about Lignosulphonate Chelation?
A. Minerol overcomes the ruminant’s inability to utilise the majority of supplemented trace elements through a unique chelation process.
Minerol is able to supplement trace elements which are more readily absorbed into the ruminants metabolic storage systems without detrimental side effects. This is achieved by employing a lignosulphonate based chelation process in the formulation of Minerol.

Q. What is foliar fertilisation?
A. Foliar fertilisation is feeding the plant nutrients through its leaves. In recent years, foliar fertilisation has gained increasing importance as a means of supplying essential nutrients, especially trace elements. Foliar application of iron, zinc, copper and manganese are often used on crops in preference to soil application, because soil uptake is poor due to the fact these elements generally are not readily available from soil. Their availability from the soil is affected by such factors as soil pH, moisture content, organic matter, microorganisms, and other elements present in the soil. Obviously, foliar applications avoid these soil factors resulting in greater availability of these minerals to the plants. If applied properly, foliar application is frequently the most practical way to supply trace elements.

Q. Why is foliar fertilisation better than soil application?
A. Foliar fertilisation will result in faster response and correction of nutrient deficiencies. When a deficiency of a particular nutrient is discovered in the field, a foliar application of that deficient nutrient is preferable to the soil application to correct the deficiency because it bypasses the soil environment and results in faster plant response.

Q. What are the major purposes of foliar fertilisation?
A. a) To overcome the inability of the roots to supply sufficient nutrients to maintain normal growth at early growing stage: Plant roots are often not large enough to obtain enough nutrients to support the rapid growth of plants at the early growing stage. Foliar applications can help plants to successfully pass through such a stage. Soil factors such as temperature and moisture may also limit the uptake of nutrients by roots and affect the growth of plants. Foliar applications obviously can overcome these problems encountered by the roots.

b) To supply enough nutrients to boost seed or fruit production: During the seed development or the fruit forming period the demand for nutrients often exceeds the ability of roots to supply these nutrients. The insufficiency of nutrients at this stage will result in fruit drops, unfilled pods or undeveloped seeds. Foliar applications at this period will help the crop to obtain sufficient nutrients and result in higher seed or fruit production.

c) To avoid the loss of nutrients in the soil environment: The application of nutrients to some types of soil may reduce their availability to the plant roots due to fixation or leaching. Application of iron to calcareous soil is one such example. In these soils foliar applications are preferred in order to avoid the reductions in availability to the plants from the soil environment.

Q. How does it work?
A. The cellular absorption (leaf absorbtion) of nutrients through leaves may not be much different than the absorption of the same nutrients by the roots. The major difference between the two pathways is the concentration of the nutrients applied. The nutrient solution surrounding the roots is generally very dilute. To the contrary, in foliar fertilisation, the nutrient concentrations in contact with the leaves are usually much higher than could be tolerated by roots because of evaporation of the water carrier from the leaves. Nutrient absorption by leaves must take place from this concentrated solution.

Q. How quickly will it work?
A. Regardless of the path of entry, the material used in foliar fertilisation must be absorbed rapidly in order to gain the benefit of foliar fertilisation. Lignosulphonates are well known for their ability to penetrate to the cells with a velocity higher than by simple diffusion. Lignosulphonates, which are natural lignin chelates, have been recognised to have this same high velocity absorption factor when compared to other materials containing the same minerals, such as Fe-EDTA.

APPLICATION

Spray on pasture at the rate of 12.5 litres per hectare (ie 1000 litres will cover 80 hectares)

SUITABLE FOR

A soil and tissue sample should be carried out in order to identify the deficiencies in the pasture. These are available through Minerol.

FEATURES

Easy application and a 3 to 4 year coverage period.

ANALYSIS

Minerol Pasture Spray One

Active Constituents		Each litre contains
Cobalt (Co)	as Cobalt lignosulphonate	3.5g
Selenium (Se)	as Selenium: methionine, lignocystine	1.1g
Copper (Cu)	as Copper: glycinate, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Zinc (Zn)	as Zinc: methionine, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Molybdenum (Mo)	as Ammonium Lignomolybdate	2.0g
Boron (B)	as Ammonium Lignoborate	10.0g

Minerol Pasture Spray Two

Active Constituents		Each litre contains
Cobalt (Co)	as Cobalt lignosulphonate	3.5g
Selenium (Se)	as Selenium: methionine, lignocystine	1.1g
Copper (Cu)	as Copper: glycinate, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Zinc (Zn)	as Zinc: methionine, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Manganese (Mn)	as Manganese: cystine, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Molybdenum (Mo)	as Ammonium Lignomolybdate	2.0g
Boron (B)	as Ammonium Lignoborate	10.0g

Minerol Pasture Spray Three

Active Constituents		Each litre contains
Cobalt (Co)	as Cobalt lignosulphonate	3.5g
Selenium (Se)	as Selenium: methionine, lignocystine	2.5g
Copper (Cu)	as Copper: glycinate, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Zinc (Zn)	as Zinc: methionine, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Molybdenum (Mo)	as Ammonium Lignomolybdate	2.0g
Boron (B)	as Ammonium Lignoborate	10.0g

Minerol Pasture Spray Four

Active Constituents		Each litre contains
Cobalt (Co)	as Cobalt lignosulphonate	3.5g
Selenium (Se)	as Selenium: methionine, lignocystine	2.5g
Copper (Cu)	as Copper: glycinate, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Zinc (Zn)	as Zinc: methionine, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Manganese (Mn)	as Manganese: cystine, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Molybdenum (Mo)	as Ammonium Lignomolybdate	2.0g
Boron (B)	as Ammonium Lignoborate	10.0g

Minerol Pasture Spray Five

Active Constituents		Each litre contains
Cobalt (Co)	as Cobalt lignosulphonate	6.0g
Selenium (Se)	as Selenium: methionine, lignocystine	2.5g
Copper (Cu)	as Copper: glycinate, lignosulphonate	25.0g
Zinc (Zn)	as Zinc: methionine, lignosulphonate	25.0g
Molybdenum (Mo)	as Ammonium Lignomolybdate	2.0g
Boron (B)	as Ammonium Lignoborate	10.0g

Minerol Pasture Spray Six

Active Constituents		Each litre contains
Cobalt (Co)	as Cobalt lignosulphonate	3.5g
Selenium (Se)	as Selenium: methionine, lignocystine	6.0g
Copper (Cu)	as Copper: glycinate, lignosulphonate	25.0g
Zinc (Zn)	as Zinc: methionine, lignosulphonate	25.0g
Manganese (Mn)	as Manganese: cystine, lignosulphonate	20.0g
Molybdenum (Mo)	as Ammonium Lignomolybdate	2.0g
Boron (B)	as Ammonium Lignoborate	10.0g

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